The privacy policy below sets out how Strategic Corporate Finance Transactions Limited (“Strategic Corporate Finance”) uses any information that you give us when you use our website, whether as a guest or a registered member/user or when you register for our online services.
Collection of non-personal data
We automatically collect certain non-personal data when you visit our website, such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your internet service provider (or “ISP”).
Collection of personal data
We only ever collect personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998), such as your name, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, etc. through our website when you electronically register to be a registered user of our website or to subscribe to our weekly deal opportunities e-mails. Personal data is required by us in order to provide this and related services (e.g. the ability to post deal opportunities on our website).
How the information collected is used
We use non-personal data to analyse the usage of our website (such as aggregated information on the pages visited by our users), which allows us to improve the design and content of our site. We also sometimes track who opened our emails and who went so far as to click on any of the hyperlinks. We do this to measure the performance of our weekly e-mails, to improve our offerings and to identify potential purchasers and potential vendors.
In the ordinary course of business, we use the personal data you give us solely to provide you with the service or services you have registered for on or through our website. If you have registered for our weekly e-mails we will share your personal data with a third party marketing company which provides this service for us; if you have posted a deal opportunity on our website we will share your personal data with those who have specifically requested contact details for the deal opportunity you have posted. By registering your personal details on our website you give consent for Strategic Corporate Finance to share your personal data in this way.
By registering to receive our weekly e-mails you consent for Strategic Corporate Finance to send you by e-mail, details of new deal opportunities which have been posted on our website and also, from time to time news about Strategic Corporate Finance, information on our services and details of events we have organised and which may be of interest to you personally, your customers or your clients. We may also send you from time to time one page summaries of a business for sale or business wanted opportunity.
If you request further information about a deal opportunity on our website then your contact details will be passed on to the adviser or broker acting on that deal opportunity, unless you untick the box which confirms your consent to pass on these details.
We will not rent or sell your personal data outside Strategic Corporate Finance.
It is possible, though unlikely, that we might be forced to disclose personal data in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena or a law enforcement agency’s request.
Third parties
Our website may occasionally use links to other websites whose information practices may be different than ours. We have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, such third parties and therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Strategic Corporate Finance has no control over the use of personal data which is shared with the third party marketing company used to provide its weekly e-mail service. However, the third party marketing company itself has a comprehensive privacy policy in place at http://www.mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ which includes the statement that “Your recipient lists are stored on a secure MailChimp server. We do not, under any circumstances, steal your lists, contact people on your lists, market to people on your lists, sell your lists, or share your lists with any other party, except as required by law or, regarding contacting, except in response to a complaint or other communication directly from an individual on one of your lists.”
Should you consider the content of any of our weekly e-mails to be of interest to another party such as but not limited to, a client, customer or personal contact of yours, we consent to you sharing our e-mails with any such third party.
Transmission of information
We cannot guarantee that any email sent from you to us will be received by us or that its contents are or will remain secure during or following transmission. Likewise we cannot guarantee that emails sent by us to you are secure. If you have any concerns about the security of email transmissions to or from us, you may prefer to telephone or write to us instead.
Also, we cannot guarantee the privacy of personal information you transmit over the web or that may be collectable in transit by others, including third parties who provide services to us.
Storage of data
Registering electronically for our weekly e-mail service may mean that your personal data is transferred to or stored in countries outside the EEC, as this service is provided by a third party. By registering for our weekly e-mail service you acknowledge this possibility and give consent to this occurring.
Cookies
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that a website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. When you visit our website we may send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following ways:
- To enable the personalisation features on our website (which give you, for example, the ability to submit deal opportunities to our website. Another example is when requesting information on a deal opportunity your name and details will be automatically completed in the request form if you have registered as a user of the website).
- To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
Two types of cookies may be used on our website, session cookies, which are temporary and remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer.
Disabling/enabling cookies
You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or its implementation then please contact us at enquiries@strategiccf.co.uk. If at any time you decide that we should no longer hold any of your personal data, or wish to change the use to which any such data can be put, please let us know by emailing us at the address above or writing to us at:
Strategic Corporate Finance Transactions Limited
27 Gander Lane
Napier Court
Barlborough
S43 4PZ
Revisions to our privacy policy
We reserve the right to revise this policy or any part of it from time to time. Please review the policy periodically for changes.
